Distinguished Architect-Consumer Banking

Citizens Bank

$150K — $180K *
Finance & Insurance
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related field
  • 15+ years in web development or solutions architecture
  • Proven track record in large-scale technological enhancements
  • Strong understanding of DevOps practices, including tools like Chef and Puppet
  • Familiarity with multiple programming languages and front-end frameworks
  • Experience managing IT infrastructure and cloud development
  • Background in both RDBMS and NoSQL data technologies.

Responsibilities

  • Lead a team of architects, providing mentorship and thought leadership.
  • Develop architectural strategy ensuring consistency across Company Platforms.
  • Communicate strategies to executive leadership and industry partners.
  • Provide design input and technical direction for architectural approaches.
  • Drive product and solution strategies aligning with enterprise technology vision.

Benefits

  • Flexible work schedule with a standard 40-hour week; Monday to Friday.
  • Opportunities for professional development and mentorship under senior management.
  • Exposure to high-level decision-making and strategic planning.
  • Collaborative work environment with cross-functional teams.
Full Job Description
Job Description

As a Distinguished Architect, you will be responsible for groundbreaking integration support across multiple technological and/or business platforms. You will have the opportunity to lead a team of architects and work alongside senior management, software engineers and technologists to ensure the strategic alignment of technological solutions and business objectives. The Distinguished Architect will provide architectural mentorship and oversight across a portfolio of company platforms and will present designs and ideas to an Architecture Review Board and to executive technology and business leadership.

Primary responsibilities include
  • Leading a team of architects; offering guidance, thought leadership and ensuring proper resource allocation to deliver top-quality solutions.
  • Developing architectural strategy across assigned Company Platforms, ensuring enterprise-level consistency and alignment.
  • Establishing and communicating strategy to executive staff, industry partners and customers; using recognized technical and business expertise to influence, guide, and craft business strategy and decision-making at the highest interpersonal levels.
  • Providing consultation, design input, technical direction and feedback for consistent Company Platform architectural approaches across portfolio Principal Architects and senior engineering leadership.
  • Driving and developing product and solution strategies that inform product requirements and investment decisions for Company Platforms across the organization, weaving the enterprise technology vision into the planning and investment processes.

Qualifications, Education, Certifications and/or Other Professional Credentials
  • Required Qualifications
    • Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related discipline
    • 15+ years of working experience in web-development or solutions architecture, with a proven track record of developing consumer-facing and internal solutions
    • Experience implementing large-scale technological enhancements and/or pivots, including pilot implementation and analysis
    • Excellent understanding of Dev0ps; chef and puppet technique
    • Understanding of multiple programming languages, including at least one front end framework (Angular/React/Vue), such as Python, Java, JavaScript, Ruby, Golang, C, C++, etc.
    • Experience working with IT infrastructure and cloud development
    • Experience working with data and DBMS, including legacy and emerging database technologies
    • Experience with RDBMS, NoSQL.
    • Experience building highly available customer-facing applications, in a GDHA setting
    • Experience building cloud-native applications
    • Experience with API's
    • Experience designing highly available and resilient solutions, Automation, identify opportunity of performance improvements, Able to transform traditional monolith architecture stack to modern microservices based loosely decoupled architecture.
    • Experience in 2 or 3 of the following technology areas. Infrastructure, Security, DevOps, Application Development, Database technologies, Cloud computing (AWS, Azure, GCP)
  • Preferred Qualifications
    • Master's degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related discipline
    • 5+ years of working experience in the financial services industry
    • UI/UX experience, including relevant web/application branding techniques
    • Comfortable/experience navigating large corporate structure
    • Executive speaking and presentation skills- Formal presentations, white-boarding, large and small group presentations

Hours & Work Schedule
  • Hours per Week: 40
  • Work Schedule: Monday - Friday


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